Majority of these statues were commissioned and placed during civil rights struggles, to intimidate Black people and remind them of their ancestry and historical place in American society: www.npr.org/2017/08/20/5...
President Trump hasn't mentioned it as he's defended the memorabilia over the past week, but historians say the statues were originally built to send a clear message to black Americans.
Notice I do not qualify with political tropes because a work of art exists formally under its own scope and space. Where are we if I come into power and start taking down signs and statues and other objects for what offends me at will?
we cherished the opportunity to take photos sit down for a picnic and converse about the artist his foundry and what community of people were involved in the commissioning of this beautiful work.
If there from a historical perspective a connection to your theory, then let us convene at the statue and explain things. American society to me and my people consists of free expression bereft of drastic interference of a maladroit nature. My family and I loved to visit statuary and monuments,..
It is non-essential when they were put up, or what chaotic events were current then. Listen to yourself...are you black or is there a need to speak for someone else? Allow us to interpret freely independently from an abrupt cut-off what subjective meanings were.